Feedback request: Carex appropinquata (781652)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #383366

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex appropinquata Schumach. ("Fibrous Tussock-sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex appropinquata Schumach. ("Fibrous Tussock-sedge")
Collected by:	John Benbow
Collection date:	1884 to 1885
Locality:	Great Britain, VC21 Middlesex, Uxbridge, TQ08, 'Wet meadows near Moor Lock Moors (a) below Springwell (.... a) canal & ditches from Uxbridge to boundary' [??] Great Britain, VC21 Middlesex, Harefield, TQ0493, Springwell [N edge of Harefield]
ex herb:	John Benbow
Institution:	Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:	781652
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	Pencil note: '..... and mooring from 'Rathuspeck' to 'the Mount' 27 March to 2 April 1902' [?]

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Documented by oldnick on 5^th January 2015.

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oldnick wrote

Presumably refers to places near the Canal. Inscriptions rather obscure; perhaps not the whole stretch from Springwell to Uxbridge; and the Herts boundary may be meant. I don't know where the locations are in the pencil note

[Roger Horton]

There may be some help from this list of features on the Grand Union Canal. I cannot decipher all of the label but using the list and zooming in on Streetmap reveals (going south from the Middlesex/Herts VC boundary*):

Middlesex/Herts VC boundary TQ046932
Springwell Lock TQ043929
Copper Mill Lock TQ040912
Mount Pleasant TQ043907
Black Jack's Lock TQ043903
Widewater Lock TQ049887 [= Harefield Moor Lock]
Denham Lock TQ052862
Bucks/Middlesex VC boundary TQ053859
Uxbridge Lock TQ052848

* this is the pont where the boundary clearly crosses the canal. In much of the region to the south the boundary follows the River Colne and thus is virtually coincident with the canal.

[Chris Liffen]

I believe paradoxa was the name used before appropinquata

In the J of Botany, Vol 23 - 1885 there are two articles by J Benbow "Notes on Middlesex plants, p36 and p338. Below is a snippet about C paradoxa